Julie Orringer

Soon to be a major Netflix series 1940, France. In the middle of a devastating war, how many lives can you save? Varian Fry, a young American journalist, arrives in Marseille armed only with three thousand dollars and a list of writers, thinkers and artists he hopes to rescue - so long as the...

In the chaos of a maternity ward, memories of tragedy and grief come flooding back for an anxious mother-to-be as she struggles to balance her child’s needs with her own healing. Rushed into an emergency cesarean section, a woman finds herself in the same hospital where her suicidal mother...

Julie Orringer’s astonishing first novel, eagerly awaited since the publication of her heralded best-selling short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater (“fiercely beautiful”—The New York Times; “unbelievably good”—Monica Ali), is a grand love story set against the backdrop...

KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST From the bestselling author of The Invisible Bridge, a spellbinding novel of two college professors harboring potent secrets, the family and friends in their orbit, and an unforgettable, resilient dog named Luna “I was so taken with Luna, Phoenix, Queen that I read it...

A spellbinding tour de force from the author of The Invisible Bridge - a novel about varieties of infidelity, the provenance of a literary masterpiece, and the power of storytelling to shape identity and destiny 'Thrilling. . . Luna, Phoenix, Queen brilliantly emphasizes the agony of isolation...